Chapter 24: When She Picks Up the Pen
found the most ethereal cinnabar, and Liu Ci's enthusiasm was fully mobilized.
Yellow paper, brush, cinnabar, rootless water, and the four elements of drawing symbols, the two most difficult things have been found by her, and the problem of the brush is no longer a problem.
As for rootless water –
In the sixty-ninth chapter of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong said, "The water in the well and the river has roots." My rootless water is not like this, but it is a person who falls from heaven and eats it without touching the ground, so it is called rootless water. ”
Water is evaporated to the sky by the high temperature of nature on the ground to become clouds, and the clouds in the sky are turned into water and fall to the ground when it encounters low temperatures, and when it falls to the ground and flows through the rock layer, it will dissolve the calcareous and become "hard water"; It dissolves a lot of dirt on the ground and becomes sewage.
In ancient times when the air was fresh and unpolluted, Yashi often swept the snow to make tea, and aside from the pretending ingredients, rootless water could indeed maintain the original flavor of the tea. Rootless water can also keep the medicinal properties of certain medicinal materials from being destroyed, so it is also liked by alchemists in the cultivation realm. In terms of its scope, rain, snow, frost and dew that have not landed can be called "rootless water".
When it comes to being clean and free of impurities, even Liu Ci can't enter and exit the lotus pond space without staining a little dust, a pool of water filled with white jade, I don't know where it comes from, is really pure and free of impurities, and it can be called "rootless", right?
Lord Wolf God refuses to contribute hair, Liu Ci can't force it to pull it out, right? The quality of the "wolf hair" made of the silver wolf hair of the big monster must be top-notch, but we are only junior players in the drawing talisman, so why do we have to stick to the silver wolf hair.
After practicing calligraphy for many years, Liu Ci's understanding of calligraphy is much stronger than farming.
For example, there are goat hair, hare hair, weasel hair, badger needle hair, raccoon hair, pig bristles, horse hair, gray pika hair, cow ear hair and so on.
There are different types of pen barrels, such as bamboo tubes, wood pipes, cow bone rods, jade rods, porcelain rods, and ivory rods. Bamboo pipes are the most common, green bamboo, phoenix eye bamboo, spotted bamboo, Xiangfei bamboo and other varieties of suitable size can be used as raw materials, although the cost of the main material is low, most of the Liu family likes the simple and simple shape of the bamboo tube brush. There are also luxury families, love the brush made of precious wood, ebony, red sandalwood, wenge, mahogany and other rare famous trees before the new era, to the new era of 3845 years of the universe era, the noble wood carved brush branch is very valuable, become a symbol of status.
And like her sister Liu Ziyuan's favorite use of sheep's hair, is made by the descendants of the ancient Huaxia Laizhou pen-making lineage, the number of brushes sold in a year is less than a palm, and a bamboo pen is more expensive than her annual installation fee.
Such an expensive brush, the pen barrel is the most ordinary bamboo, the pen head is ordinary goat, and the value is all in the craftsmanship and cultural heritage.
Laizhou heirs dare to sell a bamboo sheep's hair at a sky-high price, from the side, to determine the quality of a brush, in fact, not all in the material. Like the pen holder she is going to choose, it is the thin bamboo branch of moso bamboo, which may be sneered at in the eyes of pen connoisseurs, but for Liu Ci at this time, moso bamboo is watered by lotus pond water, which naturally has its own aura, and the main material of yellow table paper comes from the same source, not the most precious material, in the context of the magic world, it is definitely the most suitable match for Liu Ci's painting talismans.
The types of brushes can be roughly divided into three categories:
The first pure sheep hair, soft and healthy performance. Mao Chunying is long, such as holding on to the jade. Painting is full of smoke, and writing is mellow and beautiful. With a stroke in hand, happy to let it go, inspiration will come out, and the best situation will come out.
The second pure wolf is a kind of wolf, and the performance is robust and tough. Mao Ying is like a cone, and the edge is like the moon. The shaking is changing, and the wild grass is crying ghosts. The pen is in hand, the spirit is flying, the mountains are shaking, and the wind is born under the wrist.
The third is also a millitype, soft and hard are matched, rigid and soft. Or the bristle or mane has its own characteristics, the chicken and rabbit are fine, and they can show their skills. Splashing ink into the gods, rendering the vicissitudes of life, chanting at the peak, and covering the wind and rain.
From the pen view of people, Liu Ziyuan is accustomed to using sheep's hair, is a tough heart, soft on the outside and strong on the inside, good at figure painting, calligraphy glyphs are clear and beautiful.
And Liu Ci has loved wolves since he was a child, and he writes and paints with great openness.
Liu Ziyuan is the daughter of the Liu family, and the Liu family will continue to be stable for a hundred years, if Liu Ci is replaced, it will either take the Liu family to the next level, or it will be a great disaster.
Two sisters of the same mother, one is good at defending, and the other only loves to take the initiative to attack. And the Liu family has developed in the Earth Federation for thousands of years, and its foundation is stable. Although there is not much room for development within a certain range, to be at the helm of such a family, calm and conservative, is the most desirable quality, character determines fate, so the letter daughter of the Liu family can only be Liu Ci's sister-in-law.
The most outstanding genius is obviously best suited to charge, and the helmsman of the family does not necessarily have to choose the one with the highest talent. As long as he can dispatch in the middle, no matter how talented you are, you can only be the head of the house with a gun wherever he hits.
There is no end to the art of the Imperial People, and the young Miss Ci now only knows how to solve problems by force, and it is really difficult to predict what will happen to her in the other world.
"Fu", a special means for monks to communicate the aura of heaven and earth for their own use. Drawing a talisman is not just a copy of the script, not just a copy of the rune, the pen has not changed, a little hesitation, then the wrong step of the talisman is ruined, and the person who cannot draw the talisman is carefully outlined. There is gas in the talisman, and more importantly, there must be a "spirit", without a spiritual talisman you can be a pair of flowers, and there is no effect at all when you use it. The "spirit" required is not the spirit of the aura, but refers to the monk himself, after knowing the talisman drawn by heart, and integrating his own perception of the way of heaven.
At the same level, the same paper, the same pen and the same sand, the painted runes are still of different quality, and the mood and vision of the people who draw the runes are not unrelated.
Liu Ci is used to writing wild grass with the habitual wolf, so naturally she will not change her career halfway and then go to specialize in Xiaokai, the silver wolf's hair can't be obtained, so she retreats to the second, she still got wolf hair from the prey caught by the silver wolf, from a wind wolf that is said to have a fourth order. Take the longest and hardest pinch of its tail as the inner layer, and the softest fine hair on the neck as the outer layer, first use a trace amount of lime water for degreasing treatment, and the washed wolf hair was soaked in the lotus pond water by Liu Ci for half a month, until she felt that the wolf hair aura was restrained, and the nature was completely transformed by the spring water, and then the next step began.
Through repeated grooming, sorting, arrangement, combination, and classification, the wolf hair that is broken in the water, without a front, curved but not straight, flat and not round, is picked out, and this step is called "Qi Pen".
Then one side is made into a round cap shape, which is considered to be a good shape for the pen head. Then glue the thousands of hairs together and tie them with a thin thread so that they do not lose a single hair.
Liu Ci's pen shaft has long been done, and the two ends of the bamboo tube are flattened at the bamboo joints, and the water is dried over low heat, and the appearance looks good. The rosin is dry, and then carefully dig out a small hole at one end of the pen barrel that can just be stuffed into the pen head, align the pen head and the pen barrel, and a brush has a prototype.
Except for the time when he was a crab, the silver wolf had never seen Liu Ci, who was so careful, and he could even treat one thing with a pious attitude.
Liu Ci's abnormality made him very curious, and he often visited the class during the process of making a pen.
Especially on the day of the pen repair, the silver wolf dragged the corpse of the demon beast to come, Liu Ci actually disdained her favorite demon core, and all her attention fell on the bamboo knife in her hand, and every time the knife fell, she had to think for a long time, and in the end it was just to remove a stray hair that might affect the pen edge.
The silver wolf suddenly had the illusion that what the dwarf was really proficient in was not cooking rice or forging weapons as he imagined, but what she held in her hand, which the dwarf called "brush".
Her movements were so rusty that the layman could tell that it was probably the first time she had done a pen herself, and that her familiarity with the bone marrow was due to her thorough understanding of what was in her hands. If familiarity is not the process of making a homemade pen, then there is only one explanation, the tool that Liu Ci is most familiar with and most often uses is not kitchen utensils or giant swords, but the "pen" in her hand.
There has never been a calligrapher in the Magic Continent, and the obscure magic spells written on the parchment scrolls are all written by quills.
Those beautiful words that resemble the Latin language of the earth are written smoothly and beautifully by a quill pen, but no matter how gorgeous and fancy the drooping lines are, they have nothing to do with calligraphy. Therefore, the well-informed silver wolf can't imagine how the ancient Chinese people used the brush in their hands to write a kind of text that is ever-changing, sometimes handsome as a mountain, sometimes light into the pool, so that countless Chinese calligraphy lovers are fascinated by the works.
Writing became a work of art in the hands of calligraphers, and even the power of heaven and earth could be communicated under the hands of monks. The pen held in the air by the wrist is both a tool and the soul of the writer.
Autumn goes to winter, and it's another snowy day. When the snow suddenly fell last year, Liu Ci was using mountain vines, branches and banana leaves to build a fence door for the hollow of the tree where she lived. A year passed in a hurry, and on the same snowy day, Liu Ci put down the wolf hair that had been brushed with rosin in his hand, stood up and moved his hands and feet.
Reaching out to catch the snowflake, Liu Ci held his palm tightly.
Yellow paper, cinnabar, and brushes, from scratch, are all made by herself. The confusion and timidity of a year ago have long disappeared, and fate has played a big joke on her, so she can only fight back harder!
The proud Liu Jia's Aci does not allow anyone to manipulate, just like a snowflake tightly held in her hand, in the storm, she will only write the trajectory she identifies.
At the beginning of the new pen, Liu Ci set up a stone slab under the tree as a table, spread a piece of yellow paper made earlier, and the wolf was dipped in thick blood-red cinnabar ink, raised his wrist and put down the pen, and a pair of cursive writing was completed in one go.
That frivolous, arrogant, and willful "Miss Ci" is back!
Every move is arbitrary, and there is an indescribable feeling between the hands and feet, the family of Wei Feng and Jin Gu.
The silver wolf stood in a daze, in front of him, Liu Ci, who was laughing after finishing a famous book that was too white, was shrouded in a fluffy light that made it impossible to look at directly, his body was blurred and raised, and in the snowflakes in the sky, except for the figure under the tree, the heavens and the earth were eclipsed...... Where are the dwarfs it is familiar with?